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    <p class="header1">Weekly Team Status Report Page</p>
    <p>This page generates a document that contains the status for a selected week, sorted by owner and product. This document can be exported in Excel or PDF format.</p>
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    <p class="header2">Report Display Options</p>
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        <li><font class="header3">Sprint</font> - This dropdown contains a list of all sprints that are available to create weekly status reports for.</li>
        <li><font class="header3">Week Ending</font> - This calendar allows the user to select the last day of the week for which the status report will be generated. The report will be start seven days before the selected date.</li>
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    <p class="header1">Report Description - The Weekly Team Status Report </p>
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       <li>This page generates a document that contains the status for a selected week, sorted by owner and product. It contains the following:
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                <li><font class="header3">Sprint Information</font> - This section contains general information about the current sprint. 
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                    <li><font class="header3">Name</font> - This field includes the name of the sprint whose status is being displayed.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Theme</font> - This field includes the theme of the sprint whose status is being displayed.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">End Date</font> - This field includes the end date of the week for which status is being displayed.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Project Complete Date</font> - This field includes the projected project complete date.</li>
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                <li><font class="header3">Status Summary</font> - This section contains a roll-up of the weekly status report from each team member.
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                    <li><font class="header3">Contacts</font> - This section contains important contact information for the scrum team.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Project Information</font> - This section contains important information for the product.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">This Week</font> - This section contains important information about things that occured during the week.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Next Week</font> - This section contains important information about things that will be occuring in the upcoming week.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Fascinating News</font> - This section contains interesting news from or about the scrum team.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Blocking Issues</font> - This section contains information about things that are blocking the team members from progressing.</li>
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                <li><font class="header3">Active Tasks (% Completed)</font> - This section contains a list of items that were worked on during the week.
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                    <li><font class="header3">Owner</font> - This dark blue section includes the alias of the team member assigned to the tasks is displayed in the green bar above the tasks.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Product</font> - This light blue section includes the product this task is associated with.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Feature</font> - This light green section includes the name of the feature that this task is associated with.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Task</font> - This white section includes the description of the task.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Notes</font> - This white section includes notes associated with the task. These notes can be in regard to anything that the user wishes to track with the task.</li>
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                <li><font class="header3">Remaining Tasks (% Remaining)</font> - This section contains a list of items that still have work remaining before they are completed.
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                    <li><font class="header3">Owner</font> - This dark blue section includes the alias of the team member assigned to the tasks is displayed in the green bar above the tasks.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Product</font> - This light blue section includes the product this task is associated with.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Feature</font> - This light green section includes the name of the feature that this task is associated with.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Task</font> - This white section includes the description of the task.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Notes</font> - This white section includes notes associated with the task. These notes can be in regard to anything that the user wishes to track with the task.</li>
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                <li><font class="header3">Burn Down Graph</font> - This graph allows you to see how the scheduled sprint is currently tracking toward completion.
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                    <li><font class="header3">Scheduled</font> - This line of the graph represents the number of hours/days of work the team has scheduled for the currently selected sprint. This number will increase as work is discovered and decrease as work is punted.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Actual</font> - This line on the graph tracks the number of hours/days the team members have completed on planned and discovered work during the currently selected spring. This line should meet the scheduled line by the end of the sprint.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Remaining</font> - This line on the graph tracks how many hours/days the team members have remaining in order to complete all planned and discovered work for the currently selected sprint. This line will decrease as work is completed or punted, and will increase as work is discovered.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Punted</font> - This line on the graph tracks how many hours/days of work the team members are punting, in order to complete them in a future sprint. This line should remain as close to zero as possible.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Discovered</font> - This line on the graph tracks how many hours/days the team members are spending on work that was not planned at the start of the currently selected sprint. This line should remain as close to zero as possible.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Trend Remaining</font> - This line on the graph is a prediction of where the team will end up based on the work already completed, work remaining and work punted.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">X Axix - Days in Sprint</font> - The values on the X axis represent the days that are included in the currently selected sprint.</li>
                    <li><font class="header3">Y Axis - Work Days</font> - The values on the Y axis represent work days. A work day is one team member completing 8 hours of work.</li>
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    <p class="header1">Creating and Exporting the Weekly Team Status Report Document</p>
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       <li>Select the sprint whose task and resource report display options as described below:
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            <li><font class="header3">Sprint</font> - This dropdown contains a list of all sprints that are available to create weekly status reports for.</li>
            <li><font class="header3">Week Ending</font> - This calendar allows the user to select the last day of the week for which the status report will be generated. The report will be start seven days before the selected date.</li>
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       <li>Review the information in the document to make sure it looks correct.</li>
       <li>At the top of the document select a format in the "Select a Format" dropdown.</li>
       <li>Click the "Export" link.</li>
       <li>A new internet explorer window will open and a dialog box will appear allowing you to decide whether to open or save the document.</li>
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